Walking the streets of Tokyo, Japan in February 2020. I show the areas of Akihabara, Asakusa, and Shibuya. Akihabara is known for electronics, video games, anime and manga shops. Asakusa is home to ...

Revenues from such games now exceed 300 billion yen annually, accounting for about 70 per cent of arcade earnings. Read more ...

One feature I didn’t care for was the edge-controlled buttons for the on-screen menu. Buttons that you can’t see what they do ...

And it was the fact that, in order for games to be able to run on expanded storage ... Japanese site Hermitage Akihabara reports that prior to the announcement of the Nintendo Switch 2, microSD ...

Following the grand opening of a new department store in Akihabara on April 7, as a next effort to support the town’s growth, several arcade game machines have been placed all around the JR Akihabara ...

Akiba, the popular abbreviation for Tokyo's Akihabara neighborhood, for years now has been a sacred gathering place for lovers of video games, figurines and other collectibles featuring anime ...

Akihabara might be known as the center of the anime, video game, and manga universe. But it's roots are in it's electronics markets - some of the coolest in the world! Today, we're exploring the ...

On March 31, the Square Enix Cafe in Akihabara will close its doors for good. Opened in 2016, the space themed after the storied game development studio is giving up the ghost after nine years.

Up to 400 people showed up last week in Akihabara — a popular shopping district for buying video games, manga and anime — hoping to snap up the US chipmaker’s latest series of GeForce RTX 50 ...

The company has also been showcasing a playable sample machine of the Senran Kagura Pachinko game across Akihabara. The machine is available at SENGOKU193 on the ninth floor of the Hulic & New ...